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Shawnee Trail - the principal route by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken afoot to railheads to the north. Used before and just after the Civil War, the Shawnee Trail gathered
cattle from east and west of its main stem, which passed through Austin, Waco, and Dallas. It crossed the Red River at Rock Bluff, near Preston, and led north along the eastern edge of
what became Oklahoma, a route later followed closely by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.
Photo Shawnee Trail Commemorative Sculpture at Pioneer Plaza in Dallas. Courtesy of Johnny D. Boggs. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with
Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
Map - Map of the Shawnee Trail. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. |
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The Soviet tanker Emba (SS Shawnee Trail) was lend-lease to the Soviet Union during World War II.
From 1942 to 1945 the United States shipped vast quantities of equipment and supplies to the Soviet Union, transported by Soviet ships. Emba transported fuel between
ports on the west coast of the United States and Vladivostok in the USSR, a route considered to be relatively safe. On August 27, 1944, an American Lockheed PV-1 Ventura patrol bomber
on patrol seeking Japanese transports near the Kuril Islands and Kamchatka mistakenly attacked Emba thinking she was Japanese. The Ventura attacked Emba using
her 50 caliber machine guns and dropping a bomb which hit the tanker amidships, piercing the deck and tearing a hole in the side of the ship just above her waterline. Emba
was able to reached Vladivostok without further incident.
Published December 4, 2015 Piotr Mierzejewski -- Facta Nautica Dr. Piotr Mierzejewski |
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Ex-USNS Shawnee Trail (T-AO-142) tied up, at Kearny, New Jersey, 29 February 1976.
Photo John Kelly, courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages |
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